Here is a vedio of chopping and combineing circa 1957

JD Seller · Jul 26, 2015

These is another real neat video. There are showing green chopping and then on to combines. There is a JD, MM and an Oliver combine. There is also some pickers with shelling attachments in this too. I never saw the one in here that you pulled behind a regular picker and it shelled into a grain cart.
HArvesting circa 1957

jon f mn · Jul 26, 2015

Nice video. I had heard about those shellers that trailed along behind but had never seen one. Thanks for sharing.

fixerupper · Jul 26, 2015

Brings back some memories. We had a Grain-O-Vator model 20 auger wagon like the one pulled behind that sheller from 1955 when dad bought it new till just a few years ago. It held two tons of ground feed clear full. We hauled many, many tons of feed with it. I augered sow cubes with it ONCE! Never again did I di that. I thought the auger was going to rip apart from the vibrating and racket. We never had a Lundell green chopper but there were a few around these parts, possibly because they were made 30 miles away from here. That 720 Deere with the six row cultivator was a big outfit in those days. I don't remember anyone in this neighborhood farming six rows wide in the late fifties and mostly through the sixties. A few guys had pickers with shellers on the back but the joke was 'they shelled on both ends'. LOL

Jim in rush co · Jul 26, 2015

JD, what yr.did the 45 combine come out? Frist shelled in field with JD D,2 row pull type and sheller with 56 hp Wisconsin. I was thinking got the 45 in maybe 1956?

Frank41 · Jul 26, 2015

I think 1954 was the first year for the 45 round back. That was definately IA with those wild sunflowers. We had a neighbor in central IL that had a square back 95 with a Hesston 4 row head that was like a sunflower head, that cut the stalk off below the ear. It ran too much fodder through the machine and tore the walkers up. My brother had a grainovator in IA. It was on a 420 JD with a reverser and the help ran it backwards with the transmission in reverse and stripped the flighting.

Kenney Knight will have his MM uni picker and combine at Rantoul probably.

bigboreG · Jul 26, 2015

The video quality is outstanding. For the day that camera must have been the best of the best. Love seeing the implements in action. Notice how green that corn was ?

notjustair · Jul 26, 2015

We had that same grainovator cart. Ours had a snout that you could unfold twice to it just about touched the auger hopper. It was hook on the old Farmall H all harvest. The H wouldn't start itself so we pulled it at the beginning of the day and it sat idling all day until dark. I loved having the cart empty and heading back to the field - in 5th gear it felt like it had wings (to an 8 year old at least). We called it the jackrabbit for just that reason.

Here is a vedio of chopping and combineing circa 1957

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